Closed rfairley closed 5 years ago
Also from maintenance tracker which we can handle here:
Decide on file name and namespace conventions Reason: Better to have this style be more consistent
Some widely-used style guides and standards where we can get inspiration:
Tools that implement checks for style:
clang-format
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html (this could be useful for CI, it looks like it has different options for the checks to perform)Overall we should reference a format from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style (we've just used K&R
up to now).
Describe the feature
From the maintenance tracker comment (#121):
Adding a CONTRIBUTING.md (or other name) document in the top level directory of the respository might help make it more visible too.
Timeline Last week of January - have discussion at team meeting to show proposed changes and get feedback First week of February, before next "release" - merge
Additional information Requires discussion with team to agree on it and get feedback (ideally 1 week before intending to merge these changes).